Can language be an obstacle

with english being the leading language in the world with most of the earth population being able to understand it,, writing in english is really necessary if you want to adress the whole human society.

For when you talk in english,, this means that most of the people will be able to get and understand your message.. that’s why i think that blogging in english is invetible if you really care to be heard by everyone.

And to tell the truth,, i’m much better in writing in my native language (arabic) and of course more able to express myself,, nevertheless i feel that i must also speak another, more of global language.

But do the different laguages express the same ideas exactly the same,,, or let me paraphrase it as follows : can we seperate the idea from the language used to make it,, for we must actually use some language to think,, and this question in its turn leads us to another more important question :

Can our language affect the way we think? for exapmple, would a group of people who have nothing in common except speaking the same language, gain with time some special common ways of thinking related to that langauge??  If so,, then we must make sure that we learn each other’s languages to be more able to communicate,, for as shocking as it might sound in this time of advanced communications technology,, but many of our world’s problems are still caused by the fact that we fail to communicate sometimes.

As a one of many other arabic bloggers (i mean here ppl who blong in arabic, and this should not imply any special cultural or ethnic belonging),,, i feel obliged to do a part - no matter how small as long as it represents the maximum of my abilities in writing in english- in communicating with the rest of the world,, with the people who speak different languages,, and especially the people who may seem far after all these cultural and religious and ethnic and developmental differences grew to become tough barriers between us in some way,,

so i’ll try to use this blog to express myself in english,,  hoping to do a good job,,

 

Mohammed Alfar

In the Memory Of Lumuba,,,

part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5

 

Lumumba and Salvador Allende and such Democrat leftists who fell as victims for the International Imperialism were shiny examples of real strugglers for liberty, and were - by 180 degrees- far from that model of the dictators industrialized at first inside the CIA to be imposed on their people by the help of imperialism, and to end finally -after they had played the role requested from them- the way Saddam Hussein ended for example ,, betrayed by his maker (the imperialism), and cursed by the people whom he oppressed.

Lumumba and Allende -those real democrats-  on the other hand, were an excellent proof that the international imperialism has no real concern in exporting its so called ”Democracy”,, but rather in maintaining its monopolistic domination over the natural resources of the deprived masses of the developing world. 

M. Alfar